Oblique Sensation, 2009, acrylic on wood panel, 61 x 61 cm
‘but wait’ runs from November 28 through February 14
Curator: Carolyn Bell Farrell
Gallery 3
Working within the traditions of modernist painting, Frances Thomas
employs and advances the language of gestural abstraction. Using fluid acrylics on wood panel, she adopts a vocabulary of elliptical shapes, splattered dots, meandering lines and sweeping strokes, combined with a layered palette of monochromatic or complementary hues. Relying on an improvisational playing out of materials and ideas, Thomas arrives at a poetic distillation of thought, intuition, emotion and sensation. While the artist’s fluid aesthetic summons impressions of the rhythms, energies and patterns found in nature, these references are not explicit; instead, her imagery underscores the intensities, the desires and the mysteries of existence.
Frances Thomas lives and works in Barrie. She completed a BFA at York University in 1998, and has since exhibited in Edmonton, Barrie,
Toronto and New York. Thomas is represented by Peter Robertson Gallery in Edmonton. but wait is her first major solo exhibition. The
exhibition is accompanied by a 36 page colour catalogue, published by the MacLarenArtCentre with an essay by Montreal writer and curator James D. Campbell.
http://www.maclarenart.com/exhibitions/frances-thomas-but-wait
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